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Harimoto says the...

Niwa: 2nd title in the bag! NOT!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIo0WCq17Z8

It might not be a bad idea for Japan to just call off Tokyo 2020+1 after this?

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A minute of silence for Sato who managed to take a game.

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https://rallys.online/topic/alljapan/210115togami-ws4/
Poor Togami and 2 other close contacts had to withdraw because of that.

https://rallys.online/topic/alljapan/210115alljapan-ws6/
Hayata...

Odo was having a blast the past few days, creaming players left and right. The only time she had trouble was in the JG SF against 面田 采巳/OMODA Kotomi.

Choppers have a really hard time this year.

Hashimoto out in R1(R4).
Sato barely made it out in R1 and hopefully R2.

On the junior side, I see a big wave coming up this year, especially on the...

JTTA has just posted the selection criteria for WTT Middle East.

http://www.jtta.or.jp/Portals/0/images/player/selection/20210109_wtt_chuto.pdf



Forgot to post these. Ito's 3 aspects of...

Wanted to write more on Harimoto, LYJ, Moregard, Pletea and WCQ, but All-Japan 2021 is coming up next week. Will just compile some links for future reference...
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Elena Semenova: Your service isn't good enough.


...venerable, and also less-than-graceful.

FWIW, best FH, BH, serve and so on by CNT and JNT players.

And why "most decorated" and "greatest of all time" do not mix, if you have spare time to waste.
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That reminds me of Waldner's interview. He doesn't count the World Cup as a major title. Going by that, then Rosskopf, KTS(lost to Ma Wenge and Rosskopf in finals of World Cup 1992 and 1998 but...

Shang Kun: Cholei! C'mon!
Calderano: YES!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mimMgLGmtZk&t=906s

Does ITTF treat commentators(announcer and guest commentator alike) like umpires, with a small amount of allowance/stipend?

Those clips are crucial because they match up with the age/age group worked out from the news coverage, photos, and prospectus of the amateur tournaments in which he played a few years before joining...

Discussion of FZD's age on Zhihu. Some claim to know coaches or friends that he's changed his age, but most conclude that his age is real after going through the circumstantial evidence, most...

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?22236-Austrian-Open-2019-12-17-November-2019&p=296235&viewfull=1#post296235

Also read the previous post, #309.

1. LGL on Harimoto in an interview with Zhibo TV in early 2018:

Germany has surpassed us in world ranking, but I'm not the least bit worried
On the other hand, Tomokazu Harimoto, given his...

Placeholder. In before another war! :rolleyes:

2020 table tennis: Backspin strokes are obsolete!
Skinhead LJK: Hold my beer!

Harimoto and Ito make the top 5 of "male/female athletes expected to play an active role next year", coming in 5th and 2nd, respectively. Ito also ranks 4th in the "female athletes playing an active...

China is like "no, don't come." Table tennis is fortunate that China is willing to take on the burden. Qualification events for other sports that were supposed to take place in China have been...

That point fits in neatly with Ito's interview before the WWC. Ito is seriously trying to beat China, whereas the rest of the world is after her.
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Who do humans turn to when worse comes to worst? Kami-sama.

https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2020/12/24/kiji/20201224s00048000274000c.html

Chairman Mori explained the simplification of...

Ishikawa-senpai:
Missed CTTSL season 2012 over Diaoyu Islands. Just needed a signature on the contract. Had to give up WWC 2012 in Huangshi, China as well since the organizer couldn't guarantee...